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Pruning Fruits
Patrick Byers Regional Horticulture Specialist University of Missouri Extension
2400 S. Scenic, Springfield, MO 65807 417-881-8909
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Outline
• Introduction to pruning
• Apple, pear
• Peach
• Bramble
• Blueberry
• Grape
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Reasons to Prune
• Develop framework of young plants
• Maintain vigor and productivity
• Eliminate less productive plant parts
• Positioning the fruiting zone
• Positively affect fruit size and quality
• Maintain plant health
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Training and Pruning Equipment
• Pruner
• Lopper
• Saw
• Scale
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Pruning Terminology
Trunk
Central Leader
Scaffolds
Scaffolds
Central Leader Training Open Center Training
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Pruning Terminology
• Branch angle
– Strong framework
– Control growth
– Encourage early bearing
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Sanitation
• Use a disinfectant solution for tools
– Full strength Lysol
– 90% isopropyl alcohol
• Remove diseased plant parts
• Remove and destroy prunings
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When to Prune
• Dormant season pruning – Clearly see the structure of plants
– Clearly see problems
– Disease/insect pests less active
– Best time to prune • After coldest weather is past, but before trees
begin to grow and develop
• Last two weeks of February
• Growing season pruning
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Apples and Pears
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Pruning Apples and Pears
• Modified central leader training
– Strong central trunk
– Scaffold limbs – 4-9
– Scaffolds spaced vertically and around the central leader
– Moderate annual pruning when mature
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Pruning Apples and Pears
• Modified central leader training
– Training – develop the structure of the tree
– First growing season
• Head back at planting to 30-32 inches
• Remove competing leaders
• Select first whorl of scaffolds, spread for good angles, remove other shoots
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Pruning Apples and Pears
• Modified central leader training
– First dormant season • Tip the leader
• Select the best placed 3-4 scaffolds, remove the rest
• Spread the selected scaffolds
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Pruning Apples and Pears
• Modified central leader training
– Year 2-4 growing season
• Select the strongest shoot for the new leader, remove competing shoots
• Select the next whorl of scaffolds, spread scaffolds
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Pruning Apples and Pears
• Modified central leader training
– Year 2-4 dormant season • Select scaffolds from
last season’s whorl
• Remove unneeded watersprouts
• Trim older scaffolds
• Spread limbs as needed
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Pruning Apples and Pears
Source: clemson.edu
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Pruning Apples and Pears
• Pruning bearing trees – “Mold and Hold” – Prune back scaffolds to allotted
space
– Contain leader growth – cut to weak side shoot
– Don’t allow upper scaffolds shade lower scaffolds
– Don’t allow interiors of trees to become too dense
– Renew bearing surface of the tree
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Pruning Apples and Pears
• Pruning mature apple and pear trees – Prune late in the dormant season to minimize cold injury. – Prune heavily on neglected trees or vigorous cultivars, less so on
less vigorous cultivars. – Make all heading back cuts just beyond a bud or branch. – Make all thinning cuts just beyond the base of the branch being
removed. – Avoid pruning too close – Don't prune a "shade tree" back to a fruit tree in one year. Spread
the thinning over several years. – Wound dressings are unnecessary for trees pruned in dormant
season. – Match pruning tools to the size wood being removed. Use hand
shears for small twigs, lopping shears for medium branches, and a saw for larger limbs
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Disease Management
• Fireblight
– Apple and pear disease
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Disease Management – Apples and Pears
• Fireblight management and pruning – Dormant season
• Remove blighted branches • Remove cankers
– Growing season • Remove blighted flower
clusters • Remove blighted shoots
– Remember sanitation! • After each pruning cut • Lysol, alcohol
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Peaches and Stone Fruit
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Pruning Peaches
• Open center training – No central leader – Scaffold limbs connected
in a short space on the trunk
– Short trunk – 3,4, or 5 scaffold limbs
form the open center framework
– Heavy annual pruning necessary when mature
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Pruning Peaches
• Open center training
– First growing season
• Head tree to 30 inches
• Select scaffolds from shoots – 18” from ground, good angles, lower scaffold on SW side
• Pinch back unneeded shoots
• Spread scaffolds if needed
• Keep scaffolds growing at the same rate
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Pruning Peaches
• Open center training
– First dormant season
• Head back vigorous scaffolds
• Remove interior shoots
• Remove shoots on trunk below scaffolds
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Pruning Peaches
• Open center training
– Year 2-3 growing and dormant season
• Minimal pruning
• Keep scaffolds in balance
• Remove shoots below scaffolds
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Pruning Peaches
• Open center training
– Pruning bearing trees
• Annual heavy pruning is necessary – to stimulate bearing wood, and keep fruit close to trunk
• Annual pruning renews the bearing surface of the tree
• Shaded areas are not fruitful!
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Pruning Peaches
• Open center training
– Pruning bearing trees • Remove branches
growing downward or upward
• Remove broken or diseased wood
• Thin or remove branches in center of tree to maintain open center
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Pruning Peaches
• Pruning older trees
– Remove dead or broken limbs
– Remove shoots in the center of the tree
– Remove downward growing shoots
– Maintain desired tree height
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Disease Management – Stone Fruits
• Stone fruit diseases
– Canker
– Black knot
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High Density Orchards
• High density orchards
– Useful for high value apples on dwarfing rootstocks
– Require intense management
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Pruning Apples and Pears
Espaliered Apples
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Espaliered Apples
• Goals
– Interesting tree form
– encourage the growth of short fruiting stems, or spurs, that will ultimately produce apples
• Keys to success
– Dwarfing apples rootstocks
– Less vigorous cultivars
– Cultivars with spur type growth habit
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Espaliered Apples
• Pruning the espaliered apples
– Decide on form
– Provide support stucture
– Decide on cultivar/rootstock
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Espaliered Apples
• Plant a whip, and cut back to just above the first set of support wires
• Train two branches to follow the wires, and a third branch to continue the upward growth
• Repeat the process in succeeding years until the form is set
• Remove fruit until the tree fills its space
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Espaliered Apples
• Pruning the bearing tree
– Dormant pruning
• Remove vigorous upright shoots, making a Dutch cut
• Thin out weaker shoots
– Pruning during the growing season
• Remove strong upright growth in July
• Do not prune after August 1
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Brambles
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Bramble Training and Pruning
Biennial shoots
Types of Canes:
-Primocanes (first year)
vegetative
-Floricanes (second
year)
bear flowers and fruit
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Bramble Training and Pruning
• Blackberry growth habit and age
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Bramble Training and Pruning
• Trellis
– No trellis
– Steel posts + twine
– Permanent trellis
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Bramble Training and Pruning
• Pruning primocane bearing red raspberries
– Remove all canes in late winter
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Bramble Training and Pruning
• Pruning floricane bearing red raspberries
Remove old floricanes in winter
Thin remaining canes to 3-4 /ft2
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Bramble Training and Pruning
Pruning black raspberries and erect blackberries Tip primocanes in early
summer Remove dead
floricanes in winter Thin remaining canes to
3-6 per plant (black raspberries) or 6/sq.ft (blackberries
Shorten laterals to 12-18”
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Bramble Training and Pruning
• Tipping primocanes
• Tipping laterals
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Pruning semi-erect blackberries
Tip primocanes when they reach top wire
Remove old floricanes in winter
Select 8-10 strong canes and tie to the trellis in winter or early spring
Remove remaining canes
Prune laterals to 18-24”
Bramble Training and Pruning
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Bramble Training and Pruning
Pruning semi-erect blackberries
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Bramble Insect Control
• Red necked cane borer – Prune and destroy galled
canes
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Blueberries
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Understanding the Blueberry Plant
• Cane age
Year 1
Year 2-3
Year 4
and older
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Understanding the Blueberry Plant
• Cane Growth
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Understanding the Blueberry Plant
• Fruiting buds
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Pruning Young Blueberry Plants
• Goals
– Obtain full production as soon as possible
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Pruning Young Blueberry Plants
• Year 1-2
– Minimal pruning
– Remove weak twiggy growth
– Remove damaged or diseased wood
– Remove flower buds
Before
After
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Pruning Young Blueberry Plants
• Year 3 - 5
– Minimal pruning
– Remove weak twiggy growth
– Remove damaged or diseased wood
– Allow a small crop in year 3 (0.5-1 pint/bush), gradually increase crop in year 4-5
Before
After
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Pruning Mature Blueberry Plants
• Goals:
– Maximize yield
– Maximize fruit size and quality
– Encourage consistent cropping
– Position the fruiting zone
– Manage diseases
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Pruning Mature Blueberry Plants
• Remove 20% of the oldest canes each year (usually 1-2 canes)
– Remove to the ground
– Remove to a strong upright side shoot
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Pruning Mature Blueberry Plants
• Remove low growing fruiting wood at base of plant
– Most efficient harvest is from “knees to face”
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Pruning Mature Blueberry Plants
• Detail prune
– Thin out interior of bush
– Thin out flower buds
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Pruning Mature Blueberry Plants
• Consider growth habit – Upright growth habit
• Remove older center canes to open up bush
• Bluecrop, Collins, Lateblue, Elliot, Reka, Duke, Legacy, Nelson
– Spreading growth habit • Prune to upright growth
• Blueray, Berkeley, Coville, Patriot, Nui, Summit, Toro, Chandler
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Disease Management - Blueberry
• Stem blight
– Remove blighted shoots as soon as possible
– Sanitize pruners
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Grapes
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Terminology - Grapes
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Training systems
• High Wire Bilateral Cordon – Low to moderate vigor situations
– Outward and down growth habit
– Usually spur pruned
– Trellis is easy to build and economical
– Vine management is straightforward
– Adapted to mechanization
– Widely used in Midwest for many cultivars
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Training systems
High Wire Bilateral Cordon
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Training systems
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Training systems
• Low Wire Bilateral Cordon
– Low to moderate vigor situations
– Upward growth habit
– Usually spur pruned
– Trellis is easy to build and economical
– Vine management is more intense
– Adapted to mechanization
– used in Midwest for certain cultivars – Chardonel, Traminette, Vignoles
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Training systems
Low wire bilateral cordon
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Training young vines
• At planting time
– Cut back to 2-4 buds
• First year training
– Trellis should be in place
– Train strongest shoot(s) to develop straight trunks • Bamboo stakes
• Twine
• Grow tubes
– When shoot(s) reach fruiting wire, develop cordons
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Training young vines
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Training young vines
• Double vs single trunks
– Double trunks are insurance
– Useful with less hardy cultivars
– Useful for cold production areas
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Training young vines
• Second year training
– Continue developing trunk and cordons as dictated by the training system
– Remove shoots below the cordons and from base of vines
– Remove fruit
– If vine growth was weak during first season, cut back and start over
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Training young vines
Vine during the second dormant season
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What is balanced pruning?
• This approach to pruning balances vegetative growth with fruiting
• The potential of a vine to produce a balanced canopy and an optimum crop is evaluated by the amount of wood produced by the vine the previous season
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What is balanced pruning?
• The pruning formula
– The pruning formula is used to relate the amount of wood produced by the vine to the number of bud retained at pruning
– Examples (at 8’ x 10’ spacing): • Norton, Concord – 30 + 10
• Chardonel, Chancellor – 20 + 10
• Vignoles – 15 + 15
• Seyval, Vidal – 15 + 10
• Many others – 20 + 20
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What is balanced pruning?
• What do the numbers mean? – Example: 30 + 10, 30 refers to 30 buds retained for the
first pound of prunings, and 10 buds retained for each additional pound of prunings
• Based on experience, cluster size, number of clusters per shoot
• Changes with cultivar, location, spacing • Has minimum and maximum:
– minimum: generally given by the first number in the formula
– maximum: 65-75 buds for 8 x 10 spacing
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What is balanced pruning?
• Norton, 30+10, with 5.5 lbs pruning weight:
– 30 buds for the first pound of prunings
– 10 * 4.5 = 45 for the remaining weight
– 75 buds would be left on this vine
• Vines with weights under 1 pound of pruning weight should be defruited
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What is balanced pruning?
• Roughly prune: – Leave extra spurs and extra buds
• Weigh one year old wood only • Calculate bud number • Adjust bud number • For uniform rows or vineyards: weigh and average
several plants • Adjust numbers slightly for high or low vigor
plants • Leave renewal buds
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Position and orientation of spurs
• Location of spurs:
– Close to the cordon
• Spacing the spurs:
– Space evenly along the cordon
• Orientation of spurs:
– Up or down, depending on training system
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What to prune
• Quality of canes:
– Medium thickness
– Intermediate internode length
– Color
– Disease free, unbroken
– Exposed to the sun - fruitfulness
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When to prune
• Any time that vines are dormant
• Advantages of waiting
– More buds will frequently be killed in late winter/early spring
– Best to evaluate percentage of bud kill after coldest weather (by slicing through a bud: green, live; brown dead)
• Prune hardier cultivars first
• Prune last in low areas (frost pockets)
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When to prune
• Long pruning or double pruning:
– Initial pruning
• Leave longer fruiting spurs (extra buds)
• Leave more spurs than needed
– Fine tune the pruning around bud break
• Some ‘bleeding’ is not harmful
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The Home Vineyard
• For a healthy, vigorous bilateral cordon vine that produced a good crop last season – Prune all shoots back to spurs
– Weigh the wood (if you are conscientious)
– Calculate how many buds to leave
– Divide this number by 5 (if leaving 5 bud spurs) to determine how many spurs to retain
– Divide the number of spurs by 2 to determine how many spurs to retain per cordon
– Space these spurs out on each cordon
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